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PhD Fellows | Food Systems Research Center | ¶¶Òõ̽̽(title)

The Food Systems Research Center is proud to fund graduate students at ¶¶Òõ̽̽ across multiple colleges and departments, all working to answer pressing issues in food systems.

Current FSRC PhD Fellows

Ihsan Akili

FSRC PhD Fellow

Cardiometabolic Diseases, Public Health, Epidemiology, Public Health Emergency Response Planning

Jasmine Hart

FSRC PhD Fellow

Plant breeding, genomics, transcriptomics, plant pathology, participatory plant breeding.

Kacey Paige LaBonte

FSRC PhD Fellow

Extreme weather events, public health, farmer behavior, community development

Pindar Yawulda Mbaya

FRSC PhD Fellow

Food insecurity, Food Safety, Vulnerable population (elderly), Chronic diseases of nutritional origin.

Hannah Shafer

FSRC PhD Fellow

Plant biology, evolutionary developmental biology, genetics, temperate grasses/cereal crops

Patrick Shafer

FSRC PhD Fellow

Edible insects, food product development, consumer preference

Sarra Talib

FSRC PhD Fellow • Gund Fellow

Regina Visconti

FSRC PhD Fellow

Intracellular trafficking in Arabidopsis roots